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"Unless I decide differently next game......". That was GYGAX....always reliably combative and unpredictable in his arguments.

Strangely all but one of those players over the years just rerolled in our games.

Four score and seven comments ago our Snarf brought forth, upon this Enworld, a new creativity, conceived in the blood of vanquished...

I generally find overpowerd combat because players reached too far or DM wants to make a point are just as pointless and even more...

Oh dear. I want fun, games night D&D, not heavy, serious D&D. Age of Umbra killed off almost everyone, and it was bleak, man. And when...

The 1e feels like 3 game systems cobbled into one quickly.

Round segments and the way surprise worked made magic far less reliable and sneaky classes far more swingy. Some things just worked...

And then he put in the rule book it was all up to the DM what to use and what not to use. He also over the years contradicted himself...

I think - at least for the groups I've played in - one of the reasons it worked was that it wasn't very prescriptive about the kind of...

lol same. But to be fair the rules said all the rules were up to DM. So not using them was part of the rules.

This thread ... definitely brings up thoughts.

Most of my goodwill comes from nostalgia, and from pretty much everything ancillary to the rules themselves, things like the artwork, or...

We played it a lot between 1981 and 1984. It was great fun. Our GM was well read in history and we did the zeros to castle & land owners...

true but modern movies tend to take what we got back then and then take it too far. Not a problem that is just associated to noir...

i think modern Noir tends to go so far over the edge that everything is predictably going to screw you and nobody is really going to...